Hello, I'm the Assistant Editor on SearchWindowsSecurity.com. I'm looking to start a discussion about what browser people are using and why. Also, is anyone considering switching from IE to Firefox, or are your plans to stay with IE? Here's some food for thought... As of Feb. 2005, an estimated 35...

About 4 months ago, I got a call on my land line from what I (at the time) assumed was a Microsoft impersonator. (Indian guy tells you something's wrong with your PC.) I lost my temper and insulted him before dropping the phone. Last month I got another call from what I assumed was another scammer...

I have certain specific questions with fingerprint scanning as I look at it from a information security perspective. How does mobile fingerprint recognition actually work? Additionally, is there any specific method all manufacturers follow? What is the best way to make fingerprint recognition very...

Its clear that 2FA will add security however with a variety of instances where 2FA has been compromised (think OTP by Text or other Token based Authentication). What is the view on using harder or more robust and hardware secured 2FA like PKI?

I am new to Citrix Metaframe. Recently I had a virus attack and My Citrix server crushed. I have re-installed all the necessary services and also installed Citrix Metaframe 4.0. I have published applications on a myfarm and I can open then in Citrix program neighborhood. The problem comes when I...

I recently saw that Google and Yubico announced the availability of cryptographic security tokens, after the FIDO U2F specification. I'm curious to find out if this is just another two-factor authentication or is it significantly better than SecureID or TOTP. Can anyone share their opinion....

WinXP laptop, part of domain, when disconnected frm domain uses cached login. While disconnected, changed from domain member to workgroup member. :( Now login only has name/pwd text boxes - can't get domain selection box. Thus, can't login. How to get domain option back at login screen? (How to...

For some reason, at random, among 20 PCs on my network, in the morning or during the day, the network connection stops responding for both intranet and internet communications. The only solution thus far is to remove the NIC from the Device Manager, reboot the PC, and let Windows XP Pro find the...

On my Ubuntu server when I login with my username and type in the PASSWD command to change my password, I keep getting this error message: passwd: Authentication token manipulation error passwd: password unchanged Am I missing something here? Is there another way to change my password? Currently,...

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